Wight's Home & Garden

Our buyers frequent the nation's top markets in search of the best home furnishings. And, as the many loyal customers we have that are interior designers know, new merchandise is constantly arriving keeping our stock fresh and up to date.

First impressions are vital, so be sure yours are favorable. The right design elements will create the right image of yourself and your company.

Choose your vision and stick to it! What 3 words describe the interior decor of your dreams?

Your color selections will reward you if you stay true to them.

'elements' and shapes for added interest and a concise look.

Our buyers search the market for pieces that are functional and add an element of individuality and style to your home. Great pieces like side tables for bedrooms; tables, armoires and cupboards for kitchens, nooks and dining areas; entry tables for that oh so important first impression, sofa tables for lighting and accessorizing seating areas; and those difficult to find accent stands for plants and artwork.

As decorative as they are functional, a lamp can be the finishing touch or be the focal point of your rooms' décor. Lamps come in a wide variety styles and sizes.

While often elegant when used for decorative purposes, a colored shade will dim the light that the lamp will cast. And, if you really like a lamp don't be afraid to buy a different shade that will better suit your purposes. Shades are relatively inexpensive.

Pieces that add that something extra like: drama, whimsy, coziness, or that needed punch of color. Home accessories are vital to successful interior décor. And remember, home accessories are like fashion accessories they define and refine your style. The right frame, box and statuette are to your home what the right necklace, shoes or scarf is to an outfit.

The fun is in the gathering of special touches that reflect your style. Choosing items that can be moved throughout your home will stretch your dollar and keep things looking fresh.

Wall art evokes more emotion than any other element of a room's décor. Selecting the right pieces can make or break a room and be the decorating detail that defines your style. With 100's of choices, in every style and price range, Wight's is a destination for great wall art. Framed and canvas art, mirrors, metal wall decor and more. Unique and affordable in today's most popular mediums and presentations.

We take decorating seriously! From lamps to candles; framed art to holiday décor, our buyers carefully select the best home accents to suit any style, color pallet or price range. Our goal: to provide everything you need to make you're decorating dreams a reality. Whether you are working with a professional designer or enjoy decorating yourself, one visit to our extensive home furnishings gallery will reveal why Wight's is known as a one stop shopping experience for anything and everything home and garden.

Barb employs a combination of traditional paint techniques and decoupage to furniture, faux finishes and murals to walls windows and shades, and has created custom painted floor canvases for both commercial and residential clients. Barb recently did interior wall treatments for Wight's display garden at the Northwest Flower and Garden Show, including this charming Tromp 'loi of a stair case, ferns and resident cats. She can be contacted through Wight's or at 206-719-1875.

In fall, we like to get cozy and nest, spring makes us want to brighten up our spaces, summer is time for outdoor living and in winter we seek to be comfortable and warm. Your outdoor pots can be changed seasonally as well. From spring bulbs to summer annuals, fall kale to winter pansies. Live plants play an important role in enjoying each season.

Great designs bring a setting to life, complete a style and inspire a mood. From simple foliage designs to larger floral accent pieces, our talented professionals know how to create the perfect arrangement for every room of your home or office.

Baskets are back! What better way is there to add a natural design element to your décor and optimize function simultaneously? Baskets add that special touch of texture and color that only natural materials provide. Choose from our large selection of shapes, sizes and colors all woven from natural materials like sea grass and wicker. Below is a collection of photographs with creative and unique ways to display with baskets.

Our Floral Design Team is continuously coming up with new and exciting ways to design with our premium artificial florals and foliage. Not only do we have one of the largest selections of top quality silk florals in the region, but our professional design staff is here to create a custom design for your interior at *no extra cost. Just bring in your pictures and swatches, like paint or upholstery, and our team will create a design for any room in your home or office. Or choose from our large selection of prepared floral arrangements in our interior gallery.

Get creative with your table top and cabinet dishware display. Whether fine china or everyday earthenware, attractive dishes can be used for dining and decorating! So display them with pride on you table and in the cabinet by using props, or simply grouping them together. And don't forget you can easily freshen up your table-scapes with new linens like table cloths and napkins. Great for seasonal decorating!

Don't buy things to fill space, rather select those items that you love

From spring bulbs to summer annuals, fall kale to winter pansies. Live plants play an important role in enjoying each season.

Visit our indoor plant department for green and blooming plants for home or office. We hand select every plant, so whether you need a small 4" pot size or a large specimen plant, it will be lush and lovely. Check out these popular varieties: spathphylum, violets, dieffenbachia, ferns, ivy, bromeliads, pothos, dracaenas, aglomania, ficus.

You'll love the dozens of vignettes designed to inspire in an array of styles and color pallets.

The colors you choose will be the single most unifying factor of your design theme, so stick to them. Too many colors will result in a muddled, unprofessional result.

Swatches and pictures and carry it with you for easy reference.

A mix of elements like wood, metal, ceramic, glass and foliage creates a harmonious appeal.

In fact, no other outdoor accessory delivers more bang for the buck. Plus, container gardens offer not only with the beauty of the plants and the creativity of the designer, but the pots themselves are often works of art. Select from a large variety of glazed containers, terra cotta and wood in a myriad of colors, sizes and finishes.

Whether you are planting vibrant annuals for full sun or lush and lovely foliage for shade, your container garden will be the star of your garden.

Thrillers, spillers and fillers.

Custom silk designing and outdoor container planting are complimentary with your purchase.

Display them alone in a vase, or arrange them with silk flowers and foliage to add visual interest to an arrangement. We have an extensive selection of colors and styles that will compliment any décor and design style. Our silk designers are available to help you decide- and as always we offer free custom design with purchase.

From a simple green plant to a dramatic floral statement piece, botanical accents add an element of 'life' to a room.

It is our specialty AND it's complimentary ( with purchase of supplies, some restrictions apply) . Bring in your photos, fabric swatches, paint chips and wallpaper samples. You'll enjoy working with our talented floral designers as they create custom arrangements designed specifically for your home's color palette and personal style. Our selection of individual silk flowers and greenery is spectacular.

We'd love to assist you in selecting plants and a container to accent your home or garden's style. Expert knowledge will ensure the plants will thrive in your home or garden setting. Container design and planting is free with purchase. In-store repotting service for indoor plants is available for a nominal charge.

Once and month from March through November, Northwest Sharpening will come to our Nursery to offer sharpening services for our valued customers. Scissors, knives, pinking shears and small garden tools can all be sharpened while you wait. The next sharpening date is Saturday, August 16th from 10am-2pm

For your convenience delivery service is available for most items in most local areas. Fountains can be delivered as well as set up. Charge is based on location, staff required and truck size required. Please call for more details.

Our designers will bring together all the right ornamentation to make your holiday vision perfect.

Come to Wight's Home & Garden for all the essentials for successful gardening. You'll find the best amenities for the care and nourishment of your lawn and garden, including an extensive selection of organic products.

Birdhouses to gazing balls... patio sets to wind chimes... fountains to fertilizers including a full line of organic gardening products.

Watching birds and listening to their calls is a delight. It is a past-time that can be totally free or at a small expense for feeders, food, houses and/or bird baths.

The Garden Center staff can help you find the feeder, seed mix and house with the correct opening size for the bird (s) you are trying to attract, Be sure to check out the decorative, seasonal suet bells and wreaths late in the year!

Dirty water can harbor harmful bacteria, mold and mildew. If you clean it often enough, a hose and scrub brush are all you'll need. If the task requires more, use a 10% bleach to water solution and be sure to flush it with water thoroughly afterwards.

Their feeders should be kept out of the sun to discourage deadly bacteria problems. Be sure to clean the feeder and refill it at least once a week and more often in warm weather. Use only very hot water and vinegar to clean your feeders. Detergents and soap can leave behind harmful residues. Never use honey or food coloring in your feeder.

Our gardens now are often akin to outdoor rooms, extending our living spaces and expanding our ideas about decoration. Hardscapes, like ponds, patios and pergolas are accessorized with things like gazing balls (just for a bit of shine and color) wind chimes (a little pleasing sound effect) and garden gnomes (a little whimsy) , just because it's fun. In fact the garden is the perfect place to discover a fairy, albeit a manufactured creature, living happily beneath a tree or alongside a pond. It's all about creating an environment that inspires you to enjoy your outdoor spaces and bring a smile to your face.

Wight's is your local source for garden treasures and ornaments for your home and landscape. Add a decorative touch with statuary, garden stakes and weathervanes. Don't forget to add something fun and whimsical to your container plantings a small plaque, statue, gazing ball or anything else that catches your eye.

We have selected the best of the best in our updated garden solutions area. Whether you are attacking a bug or disease problem, using a preventative systemic, battling moles or deer, looking for an effective weed killer or selecting a good slug or grub control - Wight's has what you need for an easy and successful gardening experience.

Safer and more effective chemicals are being introduced every year so that when you do need a chemical based solution to a pest or disease we can offer you the safest products in the marketplace.

Try to "Go Green!" and use safe non-toxic products in the garden. Anticipate landscape problems - prevent them if possible or cure them early with natural/organic sprays instead of waiting until damage is such that a harsher chemical treatment is necessary. Always read labels on all products before using and use only according to directions. Bring in any plant samples to our nursery experts for free diagnosis and identification. It is helpful to include as many parts of the plant as possible for identification: flower, leaf, stem and photos are great too.

In the garden - fountains, ponds and pools, instantly transform the landscape, inviting us to linger, lounge and relax. Our 3 acre site, gives us plenty of room to display one of the region's largest inventories of water features in a variety of sizes, styles and finishes. Some require installation, but there are plenty of water features that require nothing more than being filled with water and plugged in. As with anything else, consider your space as well as your style and color preferences.

Choose the perfect fountain for your home, office or garden from our great selection of sizes, styles and finishes. Delivery is available.

It is safe for all animals except it is toxic to fish. Please read the label for usage instructions.

Before restarting your fountain for the season, check for any cracks. The best way to do this is fill it with water (every tier if there are multiple) and wait an hour or so. If the bowls are not leaking out the side, it's a good bet the concrete is fine. This also checks the seals from tier to tier. Next, test the pump in a sink or bucket. If you did not remove the pump (as recommended for winter) you can clean and fill the bowl and just test it there. Clean the fountain with water and a soft brush. Rinse it once or twice and reconnect the pump. Get it flowing and check that the fountain is level. If the water flow is even, you're all set up! Add Fountec or Algaefix throughout the season to keep algae down. Enjoy another summer of fountain ambience!

We stock locally blended grass seed mixtures that thrive in our Puget Sound climate, a full line of organic and synthetic fertilizers, organic amendments to help drainage and soil quality, the latest and most effective weed controls safe for turf, and all the tools and accessories to make installing a new lawn or rejuvenating an existing one both easy and successful.

It is important to encourage a lush, blend of cultivated grasses in your turf. Otherwise, weed and weedy grass seed will fill-in thin areas. Autumn is the perfect time to overseed your lawn because the soil temperature is still warm enough for the seed to germinate and the rains return to keep the seed and seedlings from drying out and dying. Also, if your lawn thickens up over the fall and winter it will shade out the annual, spring-germinating weed seeds. Mid-September (up to mid-October) is your best, fall window of opportunity.

Join the natural organic movement in the garden and take care of your home and landscape with 100% natural products. We offer a complete line of organic fertilizers, composts and soil amendments, organic weed controls and fabric, garden solutions (natural insecticides and fungicides) , compost bins, and so much more. Every year new organics reach the market and we try to find the best new organic products and solutions for your garden. From vegetable gardens to your lawn to your roses try and choose natural products from Wight's help us keep our Puget Sound climate clean the natural organic way!

Create living art for your wall, indoors or out! A living wall planter is a fantastic accent for your space and is easy to create. Grow herbs, succulents, foliage or annuals in this unique planter lined with a specially designed moisture pad that allows your living plants to defy gravity. Each unit is 16.5" tall by 8.5" wide; you can hang one unit individually and frame it with the custom wooden frame, or sections can be interlocked together for an entire wall of color. Sold separately, the wooden frame can be stained or painted any color to match your décor.

Wight's is proud to carry high quality, freeze proof, stylish, AW Pottery made by skilled artisans.

Simply put - Wight's has the tool for you! We stock high quality durable lines including Bond, Flexrake, Fiskars, Yard Butler, and Radius as well as numerous specialty and weeding tools to make life in the garden easier. We stock the complete line of hand-made Felco pruners - the standard for quality and durability in hand pruners. Come in see our wonderful selection of shovels, rakes, hoes, trowels, spades, pole pruners, loppers, saws, cultivators, yard carts, kneelers, bulb planters, shears, aerators, edgers, and so much more to help make your gardening experience both easier and successful. From cast aluminum to forged steel, from classic wood handled to the latest ergonomic grips, from the latest tool introductions to old fashioned favorites - Wight's has the tools you need.

Always have the right tool for the job - it will go faster and be easier to accomplish. The best pruners on the market are Felco brand - they will last a lifetime. Got heavy pots? We have a nice selection of heavy duty plant caddies for ease of moving them and potlifters for ease of lifting them. Try one of our favorite weeding tools like Grandpa's Weeder, the Telesco Weeder, Diggit or the Garden Bandit.

Everything Must Go! Including Select Displays, Fixtures and Store Supplies!

Our Nursery stocks only quality plant material, featuring new introductions as well as, the classic favorites from the region's finest growers.

Paved, covered walkways lined with displays of an extensive selection of plants and great signage. Large tree, shrub and conifer sections featuring specimen quality stock in a variety of types, sizes and prices.

Geraniums, Petunias, Marigolds, Snapdragons, Zinnias, Verbena, Marguerite Daisies, Alyssum

Colorful flowers and foliage

Stock, Heliotrope, Sweet Pea, Brugmansia (Trumpet Flower)

Hollyhock, Mimulus (Monkey Flower) , Pelargonium geraniums, Zinnia

To extend and enhance your perennials and seasonal bulb planting, annuals mix in nicely.

The term is often used interchangeably with evergreens BUT not all evergreens are conifers and not all conifers are evergreen. Common conifers include pines, firs, spruces, junipers, hemlocks, cedars, yews, cypresses, larches, redwoods, Japanese cedars, and sequoia. Wight's carries numerous dwarf and weeping conifer varieties (as well as standard ones) collected from the finest arboretums around the world.

We always want to help you get the right plant in the right place. Growth rates will range form 1/4" to 3 feet a year. There are numerous dwarf cultivars available as well, to add to the color spectrum in your landscape. Many even turn colors during colder winter months. They can be grown in containers for a few years and are also a favorite of bonsai enthusiasts. Wight's carries smaller 4" and one gallon sizes of many dwarfs as well as specimen sizes in larger growing plants. Stop in and explore the wonderful world of conifers at Wight's!

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We have partnered for years with our local Skagit Valley grower and the varieties we carry have been tested for a number of years in Mt. Vernon to insure disease resistance and production in our mild climate.

We carry combination fruit trees as well - multiple grafted apples, cherries, pears, plums, and Asian pears, in either tree form or espalier form to train along fences or posts. These allow one tree to cross pollinate itself eliminating the need for a second tree and ultimately saving space.

From Strawberries to Blueberries, from Raspberries to Marionberries, from Gooseberries to Currants - Wight's has what you need to make any pie, cobbler, crisp, jam or jelly! Looking to make your own wine or grow some good table grapes? We have a nice selection of good Western Washington grapes as well. You will find many other edibles at Wight's including but not limited to Rhubarb, Horseradish, Asparagus, Kiwis, Seed Potatoes, Onions and Garlic.

Cool season grass will start to grow early in the spring and may even remain semi-evergreen over the winter. Cool season grasses also seem to do better and have better foliage quality when temperatures are cool or if they are given sufficient water during drought periods. Some of the more popular cool season grasses include, Fescues, Blue Oat Grass, Tufted Hair Grass, and Autumn Moor Grass.

Cut back ornamental grasses in March when the new growth is just beginning. Check the variety's needs first. Some should be cut back hard; some varieties should be cut down two thirds and do not cut members of the carex family at all.

For instance on a slope, in rocky or shady areas. They also can be used to unify an area landscaped in shrubs and/or trees.

Evergreen/deciduous/herbaceous; Foliage color/texture; Bloom/no bloom; Container/planter; Foot traffic; Height/spread

Herbaceous plants (non-woody plants) , Sub-shrubs (low-growing, spreading shrubs) , Vines, Moss

And all you need to do for fresh produce is to step outside into your garden and fill up your shopping basket with all your favorite ingredients!

To those grown in containers on lanais and decks, any size garden will surprise you with its ability to produce abundantly.

Eating well is the ultimate reward for growing your own vegetables.

Read the seed packet for helpful hints on this as well as spacing and planting depth.

Like tomatoes, peppers, and pumpkins to ripen, so consider buying gallon size starts to advance the growing season or choose varieties that require less time to mature.

Herbs don't have to be grown in a proper garden bed. They may be planted in pots, baskets and window boxes as well as mixed into the landscape. The more you snip and pinch your herbs the more they respond with added growth.

(including the species Acer palmatum, Acer japonicum, and Acer shirawasawanum) are smaller deciduous trees and shrubs prized for their spectacular foliages and colors in Pacific Northwest gardens. They do well in containers and many are favorites to train as bonsai as well.

Wight's carries hundreds of cultivars and is always looking for the latest most worthwhile introductions. We stock from 4" starter size to large specimens in many of the varieties. Remember - Wight's is the Northwest source for the best Japanese Maples!

Simply because they are a permanent plant that has a specific bloom time in the year. Unlike annuals that die away at frost, perennials can live for years blooming annually for around 4 - 8 weeks. You can count on them to put on a show with little effort from you!

But the ones that are evergreen are fabulous! We like to carry a good collection for the fall and winter months because, in addition to adding foliage interest to your garden, they do an excellent job in your planters and hanging baskets.

Be sure to plan your garden with bloom-time in mind as well as color, height and spread. It will change looks every few weeks as different perennials go in and out of bloom. Different combinations will come into play. It can be very exciting and rewarding!

Peonies, Poppies, Daisies, Cone Flowers, Salvias, Lavender, Dianthus, Carnations, Lilies, Gaura, Delphinium

Hostas, Ferns, Astilbe, Ladies Mantle

Aubretia, Arabis, Armeria, Carnations, Creeping Phlox, Alyssum, English Daisy, Snow in Summer, Candy Tuft, Lithodora or Heuchera

Columbine, Cleome (Spider flower) , Crocosmia, Delphinium, Foxglove, Heuchera (Coral Bells) , Red Hot Poker, Bee Balm, Penstemon, Salvia

Fragrant, formal, chocolate flowers/foliage, monochromatic, faux tropical, herbal knot garden, fairy garden

Regarding perennial growth: "the first year they sleep, the second year they creep and the third year they leap."

Soil from your yard will be too heavy; it won't allow air and water to flow in the container correctly. Add an organic starter fertilizer and a time-released fertilizer such as Osmocote. These will be a steady slow diet for your plants all summer however you will still want to use a good water soluble fertilizer throughout the growing season, especially if the temperatures are cool.

Simply choose your pot and plant material and our talented staff will custom design and plant it for you free of charge*. Whether you are planting vibrant annuals for full sun or lush and lovely foliage for shade, your container garden will be the star of your garden.

When creating a container garden, use 3 types of plants: "thrillers, spillers and fillers".

If you want to attract hummingbirds, remember they love Fuchsia baskets -especially the orange to red trumpet bloom varieties. Hummingbird feeders are designed with this in mind. For best blooming, fertilize your planters every 5-7 days. Deadheading is the term used for grooming annuals by removing the spent blooms before they go to seed. Hanging baskets don't always have to hang. They look fabulous on a pedestal.

With a variety of foliages and blooms these shrubs are a staple of NW gardens. Both Rhododendrons and Azaleas can be evergreen or deciduous with thousands of varieties available.

All thrive in part sun/part shade but many do well in full sun or full shade. They are very shallow rooted so it is wise not to cultivate around them.

When new growth begins in the spring, again at bloom time or right after; then feed monthly until August. Always prune Rhodies after bloom and never more than 1/3 of total plant. Shearing Azaleas after flowering will keep them lower and denser and always produces more bloom year to year.

Perfect for the cutting garden! Hybrid tea roses have classic, shapely blooms that sit atop long single stems, looking beautiful in arrangements and in the garden. They are known for their highly fragrant blooms in a variety of scents.

These produce large blooms of clusters and single blooms. The blooms are usually double and without a striking fragrance. Bushes normally grow to a height of 3 to 6 feet, making it ideal as a background border planting.

Free-blooming with different flower sizes and forms, broadly varying in mature size but have a full bushy habit. They have good disease resistance and hardiness. A great way to add color to your landscape!

Roses don't have to be in a formal bed. They mix well with shrubs and fit nicely in perennial borders. Remember to remove the tag from your roses. It will cause the branch it is on to eventually die.

They present a backdrop for border plants like annuals, perennials, and bulbs during warmer seasons and carry their structure through the winter without dying to ground. They should be utilized along foundations, in borders, or as hedging or barriers along property lines. Frankly gardeners can tuck a shrub into just about every spot in the garden from full sun to full shade. They are easy to care for and provide year around texture, shape and color to the garden.

Wight's nursery personnel can help you choose the perfect shrubs for your needs. Come in prepared with information on your soil type, sun exposure, eventual height and spread needs (watch out for overhead or underground, utility lines!) , whether it can be deciduous or not and what you are trying to achieve with the shrub. We can give you information on care requirements: if and when to fertilize, prune or deadhead. What their drought tolerance, disease resistance and cold hardiness are.

Let us help you find the "right tree for the right place" in your landscape. Whether you are concerned about eventual size, disease resistance, root systems, or are looking for a particular season for bloom or foliage color Wight's has the tree for you. Not only do trees provide natural beauty and shade but also wildlife habitat, erosion control, and cleaner air through carbon dioxide reduction. Wight's carries many of the standard shade and flowering trees, an excellent selection of dogwoods, and many newer introductions and rare species. Let's get planting remember the best time to plant was 20 years ago and the second best time is today!

Climbing Hydrangea (H.anomala petiolaris) , Japanese Climbing Hydrangea (Shizophragma hybrid 'Moonlight' or 'Roseum') , and Clematis Hybrids (we can get hundreds of hybrids, the more popular are: 'Nelly Moser', 'Jackmanii', Henryi, Multi-Blue, Dr. Ruppel, The President, Niobe, Proteus, Etoile Violette, Dutchess of Edinburgh) .

Clematis (C. armandii, C. Montana) , Climbing Roses, Wisteria, Honeysuckle (Lonicera) , and Akebia.

Boston Ivy, Grapes, Kiwi, Porcelain Vine, Trumpet Vine, Hops, and Passionflower.

Never fear, it is probably not dead, just hit by "clematis wilt". Wilt is caused by a fungus called Ascochyta clematidina. It tends to infect damaged stems and is most heartbreaking on young, smaller plants that can completely collapse to the ground. Nothing can revive the affected stems; simply cut them down plus one inch into the healthy area (this may even be underground) . Get rid of the diseased cuttings (do not compost them yourself) . Then spray the remaining stems and water the ground around them with a good fungicide. Repeat the spraying/watering at two week intervals until you are sure that there is no further danger of infection. New shoots will come from below the ground in a few weeks or as long as 3 years. When you plant clematis, it is helpful to set it in the soil up to 4 6 inches deeper than the size of the container. It will sprout new roots on any stems buried underground. This will give it a stronger root system to withstand the wilt. Make sure it is in well draining soil, add lime or gypsum (for calcium) to the backfill soil as well as TerraRosa Perennial food.

Our "Garden of Gardens" in the 'City Living' Display has won the award for Best Design. Each year, we are honored to take part in the nation's 2nd largest Flower & Garden Show and we'd love for you to be a part of it too! Visit our Garden Center to purchase tickets to this fabulous event and make sure to stop by our patio garden on the Sky-Bridge for special savings on your upcoming spring purchases, you'll be glad you did!